Card Apprentice Daily Log



Date- 13 April 2321

Time- 09:35

Location- Southern Region, Southern Capital, Southern Royal Palace, Secret Passage, Gold Gate

I looked closely into the apparition of the Southern capital city projected by the Golden Gate Cluster Array formation to find that not all of the residents in the city have vanished. There were a few of the residents left behind in the city. To be exact these people resisted the effect of the Golden Gate Cluster Array formation hence they were not teleported with the rest of the citizens. 

"Team 2, 3 & 4 I have shared the locations of possible hostiles to your grimoire, go investigate them and neutralize the threat if there is one. Otherwise, ask the residents to quickly move to the disaster shelter or they will be responsible for their safety. Other teams, be on standby," Ann tabulated the locations where the city residents resisted the Golden Gate and then divided the locations into three groups based on their proximity to each other and share it with three demigod teams to investigate and neutralize the threat. 

Considering the patriotism of the Southerners they would never willingly resist the effect of the Golden Gate when the Southern Emperor and the Keeper of Golden Gate specifically asked them not to. 

So it was obvious that those who resisted the effect of the Golden Gate were not Southerners but foreign residents, tourists, merchants, etc, or in the worst-case scenario spies. 

I then found the Prestige Four Seasons hotel and I was not surprised to find that the hotel was filled with occupants. 

Considering it was a hotel most of its occupants were visitors from other regions and considering that they could afford to stay at Prestige Four Seasons they were influential people.

The staff of Morningstar University staying at Prestige Four Season was the perfect example of this. 

This was a problem, how was the Southern royal family going to explain to these people? From the looks of how Ann was handling things, she did not seem to care about offending these people. 

I guess with the Dual Gate dungeon connecting the Western capital to the Southern Capital, the Southern Region could afford to burn a few old bridges to build new ones. 

Still, the Southern Royal family did not have to be blatant about this as not everything was set in stone considering that the Central government has deployed one of their best teams to destroy the dual gate dungeon. 

According to the information I have, the kidnap attempt on me and the attack on the dual gate dungeon will happen simultaneously to divide the forces of the Southern Royal family. 

"Ann, where did you teleport the citizens to?" I asked Ann aloud, gathering the attention of team one and the keeper of the Golden Gate on me. This was the first time they were sparing some time to look at their target of protection since I arrived here. I think you should take a look at

Before now their attention was only focused on Ann and her orders alone, they did not bother to look at me until now. 

Either these guys were too loyal to their leader or they were pissed at the fact that the Southern Capital was going to become a battleground because I was being stubborn and attending the interview despite knowing it was a trap. 

"They are teleported to a shelter space under the royal palace grounds where they are all in a state of suspended animation. Once the hostile forces are handled the citizens will be returned to their original spot. Even though hours would have passed since the incident they will only feel as if a few seconds passed," Ann explained under the dumbfounded gazes of team one and the keeper of the Golden Gate. 

They were not surprised by the effect of the Golden Gate by the fact that the Southern Emperor patiently explained its effect to the boy, understanding that rumors about the Southern Emperor being close to the boy were true. 

Similar to Jill they started to wonder if Ann had assembled fifteen teams of demigods for the protection of the boy out of her feelings for him even though it wasn't necessary. 

They did not mind fighting the enemies of the Southern Region and Royal family but turning the Southern Capital into a battleground for an ignorant boy who stubbornly demanded to walk into a trap. Now that did not sit right with them. However, they did not hesitate to follow the orders given to them. 

The reason the allied demigods thought this way was that they did not have an accurate picture of why so many of them were assembled to protect a boy when they are needed at the way Beyond or by the newly discovered Dual Gate dungeon. 

Unlike the enemy demigods who knew exactly why they were after the boy and the dual gate dungeon, the allied demigods had no idea why the boy was so darn important. 

These doubts about their objectives affected their morale, however, the Southern Royal family did not know how to tell these demigods why the boy was so important. 

The revival of the Silver Milk Powder project was top secret and they did not know the secrets of the VR-Universe known to the top universities and the Central government. 

The Southern Royal family did use the 'Soul Energy Digestion' effect to emphasize the importance of the boy and justify that they all had to risk their lives to protect the boy as he attended the university early admission interview despite knowing it was a trap set by the Central government and Morningstar University. 

This only raised dissatisfaction among the demigods. Their dissatisfaction was not with the Southern royal family but with the boy.

As demigods, they did not receive even a tenth of the treatment the boy received so it was bound to attract their jealousy for the boy and this incident couldn't have been on a better timing. 

However the demigods' dissatisfaction with the boy was not without reason, it was debated why the boy didn't apply for the copyright of his card recipe for the card with the 'Soul energy Digestion' effect, and why the boy stubbornly demanded to walk into a trap knowing it was a trap. They felt he was being selfish. The demigods lowered themselves out of patriotism for the Southern region and excepted the same from the boy.